Ever go to a relative's/friend's house for Thanksgiving and they ask you to "do the honors"

[Tab]

and carve (because they can't) and all the knives are crap? So then you're faced with the expectation of doing a good job carving when all you have to work with are some cheapass knives that came in a knife set (sometimes with a wooden knife block or tray) and they're all duller than f*ck and useless or they just have little four inch serrated steak knives.

On edit: Changed "duller that f*ck" to "duller than f*ck" for obvious semantic reasons.

[cbayer]

1. Sounds like time to buy them an early christmas present!

[Callalily]

2. Oh don't take it so seriously.

Obviously the host is uncomfortable about carving the turkey, but what ever job you do, I'm guessing that the guesta really don't care. As long as they get "white" or "dark".

[Tab]

3. I don't personally get caught up in it

but some of the things I've been offered to work with makes me wonder how these people cook anything.

[eppur_se_muova]

4. Tear it apart with your hands and teeth. They'll never ask you again.

(If they do, stop showing up for Thanksgiving.)

[becca da bakkah]

5. But.....Fucking is NEVER Dull!

We have our oxymoron of the week!

[HappyMe]

6. I'm usually just glad

everybody is there. Good food, good company and good times!

Not everyone has $$$$$$ for pricey knives.

[Tab]

7. Oh, it's got nothing to do with finances

Some have plenty of money. It would just never occur to them why they might want at least one decent knife in the drawer.

[surrealAmerican]

8. You could try tucking a whet stone in your pocket if you expect this to happen.

Of course, then they will definitely ask you to do this every year.

[Tab]

9. Or just stash my two fave knives in the car in case I get asked.

If only to save me the hassle of trying to carve a turkey with my choice of either paring knife, bread knife, or butter knife.

[Warpy]

10. I just ask them where the knife sharpener is

Believe it or not, most of the time there's one languishing at the back of a junk drawer, unused because they never friggin think of it, just keep squishing tomatoes and bruising lettuce with the dull knives.

If there isn't one, I look for any unglazed ceramic I can find, even a flowerpot, to drag the knife across to remove the worst of the burrs.

[Tab]

11. True...

Chances are they all have a sharpen rod, which has likely also never been used.

I might draw the line at slitting the throat of the garden gnome, though.